Word: band-aid
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...Band-Aid Bills. Three bills await Governor Marvin Mandel's signature in Maryland. One would create a physicians' insurance company, another would establish a pool to cover doctors unable to obtain insurance from private companies, and the third would require that a suit be brought within five years of the treatment that caused the alleged injury...
...Governor's plan would create a state insurance fund, shorten the statute of limitations on malpractice suits, and make it easier to discipline doctors who make avoidable errors. California's state senate has passed and sent along to the legislature's lower house emergency, or "Band-Aid" bills to guarantee malpractice coverage through the end of the year. Bills to limit liability or create state-sponsored insurance companies are being introduced in Tennessee, Michigan, Oregon, Pennsylvania and North Carolina. Congress is considering federal legislation that would reimburse private insurers for awards in excess of $200,000, establish...
...When the relatives gather for dinner upon her return from six months in an asylum, he exasperatedly demands. "Conversation! At parties people have conversation--you know--talk!" Near the end, his wife tries to lash her wrists, and in a clumsily symbolic scene. Nick stops the cut with a Band-Aid...
...Band-Aid. The Witteveen facility is intended to last only one year; in all likelihood, the parent IMF will begin making ordinary loans to oil consumers when the facility's funds are exhausted. By that time, however, the much bigger, $25 billion safety net designed by the U.S. to aid industrial nations should also be in operation. All 24 members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development are to participate in the plan. Each time a member nation is granted a loan, all the other members would assume a set percentage of the risk. The U.S. would...
...peaceful end to the row was inevitable, given the severity of the economic problems facing the consuming nations. No matter how they are recycled, oil loans are just a massive Band-Aid; real relief cannot come until consuming nations find lasting ways to crawl out of their oil deficits. As Henri Simonet, vice president of the European Commission, bluntly puts it: "Recycling is only another word for indebtedness...